... Comet McNaught Over New Zealand . ... This looks like a near miss but the greenish coma and tail of Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) are really 2,000 light-years or so away from the stars of open cluster Messier 6. ... The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble . ... Eclipse at Moonrise . ... From the early hours of October 8, over the Santa Cruz Mountains near Los Gatos, California, the totally eclipsed Moon shows a range of color across this well-exposed telescopic view of the lunar eclipse. ...

... The solar regions . ... NOAA 11300's . ... The description of the solar regions . ... The long bipolar chain of small sunspots were observed at the 29th parallel of the Southern hemisphere since 6.04 to 14.04.02. ... The bipolar combination of sunspots crossed the Sun disc since 7.04 to 19.04.02 along the mid latitudes of the Northern hemisphere. ... The short-time bipolar sunspots were marked at the low latitudes of the Northern hemisphere since 12.04 to 15.04.02, in the Western part of the Sun...

... 2007 February 12 . Comet McNaught Over New Zealand . ... Explanation: Comet McNaught is perhaps the most photogenic comet of our time. ... Comet McNaught was imaged two weeks ago between Mount Remarkable and Cecil Peak in this spectacular image taken from Queenstown , South Island , New Zealand . The bright comet dominates the right part of the above image , while the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy dominates the left. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

... ESO for the Public > Doing Business with ESO > Technology Transfer > Historic examples of ESO-developed technologies . ... Solar System . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Technical CCD systems . ... The original TCCD systems are now obsolescent, and have been replaced by a newer version based on a commercial controller and an ESO-developed CCD head. ... Remote Observing . ... Before the VLT era, astronomers given observing time on ESO telescopes had to travel to Chile to carry out their observations. ...

... This year's most powerful solar flare was photographed by TESIS telescopes in the southern hemisphere of the Sun on July 5th, 2009. ... Events of such power are unique and are only observed during maximal solar activity. ... For two months, all the activity of the new solar cycle was connected with areas of this belt, including the first solar flares and coronal mass ejections of the year. ... Nevertheless, this year's largest solar flare occurred in the southern belt. ...

Brad Carter, Carolyn Brown, Rhodes Hart Drew Foster, John Kielkopf, Ron Moore University of Southern Queensland, Australia University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA OVERVIEW Mt Kent Observatory is now providing live remote observations of southern skies as part of a collaborative project between USQ, the University of Louisville, and Northern Kentucky University. ... This enables observers to make daytime use of a remote telescope during its local night-time, and image otherwise inaccessible skies. ...

... References: % observed energy levels : Shirai,T., Sugar,J., Musgrove,A., Wiese,W.L., 2000, J.Phys.Chem.Ref.Data, Monograph 8 % observed energy levels (12,21,22,25,29,34,37,39-42): Martin,W.C., Sugar,J., Musgrove,A., Dalton,G.R., 1995, NIST Database , Version 2.0, NIST Standard Reference Database 61. %comment: the following NIST observed energy ... References: %filename: fe_23.splups %oscillator strengths (n=2 levels): Zhang, H.L., Sampson. ...

... A distance-limited sample of southern Wolf-Rayet stars within 3 kpc of the Sun has been observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array at 8.64 GHz and 4.80 GHz. ... Five sources are classified as non-thermal. ... We derive mass-loss rates for the thermal sources. After combining them with all existing radio mass-loss rates of Wolf-Rayet stars in the northern and southern hemisphere, we perform a comparison with mass-loss rates derived from optical emission lines. ...

... 1995, Cycle 5, GO-5847 , PI, 9 orbits. The nuclear disk in the E4 radio galaxy NGC 7052: evidence for a central black hole? ... 1996/97, Cycle 6, GO-6537 , CoI, 8 orbits. ... Nuclear kinematics of the dense globular cluster M15 . ... A Census of Nuclear Star Clusters in Late-Type Spiral Galaxies . ... A Census of Nuclear Star Clusters in Late-Type Spiral Galaxies: II - Spectroscopy and Stellar Populations . ... The Ages of Nuclear Star Clusters in Early-type Spiral Galaxies . ...

... Up: Proposal Processing . ... ESO is prototyping a distributed ``Phase II'' system that will allow astronomers to prepare their observations at their home institutions, while maintaining a central repository for all observation data. ... ESO is developing a Phase II Proposal Preparation system (P2PP) to collect detailed scientific programme descriptions, in the form of observation blocks (OB). ... ESO's Phase II Proposal Preparation system is an integral part of the VLT Data Flow System (DFS). ...

... Note: Click here a longer, much more comprehensive overview of the polar aurora . ... Magnetic Field . ... Aurora . ... 3b. Fritz Aurora . ... Electrons . ... Typical aurora (Dick Hutchinson ї) . In Alaska, Canada, Norway, Finland or northern Russia, on a clear night, a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ...

... Logout of current observing session if necessary . ... Select 'Line' from the observing modes . From the ' Choose receiver' widget: Choose ALFA & then 'Select this receiver now' . Dismiss widget . From the 'Observer's interface' select Pointing Control . Within Pointing Control click on ' catalog' . ... Leave this widget open (i.e. don't click 'dismiss') . ... Dismiss the 'New improved IFLO Control' widget. ... From the WAPP ALFA widget click on 'Configure WAPP ALFA' . ...

... Home Observing Central Park ? ... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... The AAA hosts solar observing in Central Park one Sunday afternoon€аeach month.€а WeтАЩre located right by Bethesda Terrace and Fountain , middle of Central Park, just north of 72nd street. ... 2016 Amateur Astronomers Association of New York Designed by Press Customizr Powered by ....

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... In the late 1970s, jets were discovered in megaparsec-long radio galaxies. ... This involved the first quantitative analysis of jet warping, bending and disruption in galactic halos. ... Hot spots are created where a jet finally crashes into the surrounding medium. ... I extended the so-called Twin Exhaust Model, using numerical simulations to show that hot gas can be ejected in three forms: jets, bubbles and clouds. ...

... Solar Eclipses in 2009 : . There are two eclipses of the Sun (an annular eclipse on January 26 and a total eclipse on July 21-22 ) in 2009. ... Annular Solar Eclipse . ... Annular Eclipse of the Sun on January 26, 2009 . ... Beginning of northern limit of umbra . ... Beginning of center line; central eclipse begins . ... Central eclipse at local apparent noon . ... Total solar eclipse . ... An annular eclipse occurs when the apparent disk of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. ... Umbra: . ...

... Moon . ... Observing . ... Cassini tracks clouds developing over a Titan sea . ... NASA s Cassini spacecraft recently captured images of clouds moving across the northern hydrocarbon seas of Saturn s moon Titan. ... Cassini tracked the system of clouds developing and dissipating over the large methane sea known as Ligeia Mare for more than two days. ... But since a huge storm swept across the icy moon s low latitudes in late 2010, only a few small clouds have been observed anywhere on the icy moon. ...

... The concept of continuous solar wind developed in 1950's. First, Biermann (1951, 1957) observed comet tails as they passed close to the Sun , and explained the observed tail deflection by a continuous flux of protons from the Sun. Then Parker (1959) showed that the solar corona must expand, and called the outward streaming coronal gas 'solar wind'. ... The expanding solar wind drags also the solar magnetic field outward, forming what is called the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) . ...

... GCN 8471 | ... TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8516 SUBJECT: GRB 081102: MASTER refind and final results DATE: 08/11/11 15:50:10 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, A.Belinski, N.Shatskiy, N.Tyurina, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.Parkhomenko Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Krushinski, I.Zalognikh Ural State GCN Circ 8470, Lipunov et al., ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... By admin March 6, 2013 Posted in: Comets and Asteroids . ... Comet PANSTARRS reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun on 10 March, after this it will start to move away from the Sun and to be visible in the twilight sky to observers in the northern hemisphere. ... It was a very faint and delicate white ?feather? against a deep golden sky.€а It took quite some effort to find even with binoculars and I could not see it at all without them. ...

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